Stories from Thursday, December 14, 2006

By Jennifer Johnson Nevada Daily Mail Students, families, and educators gathered at different locations around Nevada on Wednesday Dec. 13 to participate in an attempt to break a world record currently held by the United Kingdom for the "Most People Reading Aloud Simultaneously in Multiple Locations."...

By Steve Reed Special to the Daily Mail This story is about faith. Not necessarily religious faith, although certainly that is important to all of the people involved. No, it's about keeping faith in what you know to be right and true --keeping the faith regarding the rights of women and in your own ability to do what you believe you are called to do, even when others discount it...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Bronaugh R-7 School District recently released the Annual School Report Card issued by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, DESE. The report does not give a letter grade for the school. It is a compilation of statistics comparing Bronaugh to other districts in Missouri...

Nevada Daily Mail Time is rapidly running out for people to file for one open seat in the 2007 Nevada City Council election before the 5 p.m., Dec.19, deadline. As of 5 p.m. Wednesday two candidates had filed, Lynn D. Sheridan, 511 E. Allison and Mickey D. Mason, 604 N. Main...

Second, third and fourth grade students from St. Mary's School visited the First Christian Church Widow's Group's Christmas dinner at Nevada Sunshine Tuesday. The group sang Christmas carols to entertain the widows before lunch was served. Vernon County Ambulance District members also stopped by to pick up toys the widows had collected to donate to the VCAD's annual toy drive...

Linnard R. Loomer, 55, San Leon, Texas, formerly of Nevada, passed away on Monday, Dec. 11, 2006, in San Leon. He was born July 30, 1951, in Nevada, to John Kenneth Loomer and Carrie Maude Shumaker Loomer. Linnard was born and reared in Nevada and graduated from Nevada High School in 1969. ...

Clara Marie Ditmars, 95, Nevada, Mo., formerly of Walker, Mo., passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006, at Moore-Few Care Center, Nevada. She was born June 6, 1911, in Walker, to Charles Harmon Horning and Minerva Ann Mitchell Horning. She married John C. Ditmars on Aug. 16, 1947, in Berea Christian Church. He preceded her in death on July 8, 1985...

Sarah Wolf and Matt Lambeth, Sheldon, are proud to announce the birth of their son, Isaac Dale Lambeth. Isaac was born Dec. 12, 2006, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces, and measured 20.75 inches. Paternal grandparents are Donna Lambeth, Jasper, Mo., and Les and Timpi Lambeth, Carthage, Mo. Paternal great-grandparents are Lonnie and Linda Lambeth, Carthage, and Wanda Roland, Webb City, Mo...

I have enjoyed each Christmas card and each Christmas letter I have received every year. It is great to hear from friends and relatives we don't see too often. It is also nice to be remembered by those we see quite often. But there is a downside to the practice for me...

For some years I've possessed, and often browse, a book titled, "The Collapse of British Power," by well-known British writer on war, Corelli Barnett. I was telling a friend of Barnett's thesis: that the British (who seems to have done everything, built an empire and lost it, in "a fit of absent-mindedness") absent-mindedly collapsed just because they'd let their industrial plant decay. ...

It's been well documented that the late, great, Lamar Hunt founded the AFL in 1959, and that the legendary owner of the Kansas City Chiefs coined the term "Super Bowl." But what you may not know is exactly what this visionary man contributed to the game that has supplanted baseball as America's favorite sport...